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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I PROGRESS AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF LIFE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 DUTIES BEYOND BORDERS -- CHAPTER 2 DUTIES BEYOND THE PRESENT AND BEYOND PERSONS -- PART II FIDUCIARY INSTITUTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 3 STEWARDSHIP ECONOMICS -- CHAPTER 4 GOVERNMENT AS TRUSTEE -- CHAPTER 5 CIVIL SOCIETY AND COMMONWEALTH OF THE LIFE -- PART III TRANSPARENT SOVEREIGNTY -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 6 GLOBAL ETHICS AND FIDUCIARY STATES -- CHAPTER 7 THE NATION AND THE WORLD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- APPENDIX: INDICES OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL DISRUPTIONS DUE TO HUMAN ACTIVITIES -- INDEX

Les études et analyses politiques contemporaines relatives à l'Islam portent souvent l'empreinte des jugements et valeurs éthiques propres au milieu culturel des chercheurs.

Cyberspace is widely acknowledged as a fundamental fact of daily life in today's world. Until recently, its political impact was thought to be a matter of low politics--background conditions and routine processes and decisions. Now, however, experts have begun to recognize its effect on high politics--national security, core institutions, and critical decision processes. In this book, Nazli Choucri investigates the implications of this new cyberpolitical reality for international relations theory, policy, and practice. The ubiquity, fluidity, and anonymity of cyberspace have already challenged such concepts as leverage and influence, national security and diplomacy, and borders and boundaries in the traditionally state-centric arena of international relations. Choucri grapples with fundamental questions of how we can take explicit account of cyberspace in the analysis of world politics and how we can integrate the traditional international system with its cyber venues. After establishing the theoretical and empirical terrain, Choucri examines modes of cyber conflict and cyber cooperation in international relations; the potential for the gradual convergence of cyberspace and sustainability, in both substantive and policy terms; and the emergent synergy of cyberspace and international efforts toward sustainable development. Choucri's discussion is theoretically driven and empirically grounded, drawing on recent data and analyzing the dynamics of cyberpolitics at individual, state, international, and global levels.

Disease is a transnational phenomenon which pays no heed to territorial state boundaries; yet it rarely features in the discussion of International Relations. It is important that the discipline should address the issue of disease and more broadly, health, not simply to facilitate containment of disease transmission across international borders but also because central notions of justice, equity, efficiency and order are involved.

As a field of study international relations has always been concerned with the problem of war. Since the second world war much attention has been given to the impact of weapons of mass destruction, most commonly in the form of nuclear weapons. More recently, a wider variety of issues have been addressed by the field, notably widening its coverage of economic, welfare and social issues. Three broad approaches to international relations have emerged: political realism, pluralism, and globalism.Biotechnology represents a major technological revolution which will have enormous impact on the world at many levels. One impact which cannot be ignored is its potential for weaponry. This paper assesses the three international relations approaches with respect to their elucidation of biotechnology and its potential for violent and aggressive applications.

THE AUTHOR EXPLORES THE IMPACT OF DOMESTIC ETHNIC PLURALISM ON INTERSTATE AND TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONS THROUGH SIX CATEGORIES OF ETHNIC POLITICS THAT INFLUENCE OR ARE AFFECTED BY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: IRREDENTA, DIASPORA, ETHNICITY AS A STRATEGIC RESOURCE, NON-STATE NATIONS, TRANSNATIONAL ETHNIC ECONOMIC NETWORKS, AND THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF MINORITY RIGHTS.